The Market For Patients
The multinational pharmaceutical companies control much of patients’ associations
Much of patients’ associations are nothing but entities created and / or controlled by large multinational pharmaceutical companies to ensure that patients receive the same information that doctors through the magazines and their guests.
This “sponsor” their activities, their media organs, doctors advice people to “trust” their meetings or conferences. It is concerned that a person will not even think about alternatives to the drug. All in the name of science but what is really being sought is to secure the business.
“Displaying a stunning ability to create industry associations of people living to raise awareness of the disease throughout the population.” (Jörg Blech in “The inventors of diseases”).
Large multinational pharmaceutical companies decided long ago to control the healthcare system from its very basis, patients, patient associations by creating or controlling those already created.
The idea was to harness the social sensitivity to the prestige their messages and their treatment with the collaboration of personalities to lend their image as “noble” causes. The truth is that profit from them for such prestigious associations of patients whose end is not really other than to ensure that only their drug products are socially and scientifically accepted.
And, what better advertisement for its products than the patients they are intended? Such blatant manipulation stalled soon, of course, among the other companies in the sector that saw its huge potential quickly.
Not only is it always easy to find well-meaning and altruistic people paid to work for an end such “selfless” and “humanitarian” but it also gets to go free because even sometimes to the state fund